Before taking a bajaj I make sure they have change for me. Otherwise I look for another. I am tired of getting to the destination and then the driver hopping out and asking street vendors for change from 10,000 shillings. ATMs only give 10,000 (only very occasionally 5,000 notes) and so I am always stuck… Read More »
As Ujiji was only a few minutes south of Kigoma and abut a £1 for a bajaj to get there, I thought I’d take a look. I hadn’t planned to go to see the Livingstone memorial but I had time on my hands and Kigoma town was not big enough to keep me occupied. I… Read More »
I had toyed with the idea of going over in Burundi while I was in Kigoma but I had forgotten about COVID restrictions and when I looked at the requirements, it became obvious it would be too expensive, time consuming and difficult, especially with quarantine regulations. I decided to keep that trip for another day.… Read More »
IT was my side trip over the Christmas/New Year period when everybody had gone home and I was stuck in Tanzania. Anyway I didn’t fancy goig anywhere outside the country so I thought it would be an ideal opportunity to osee more of Tanzania. Kigoma is somewhere where it’s a bit hard to get to.… Read More »
While I don’t miss living in China I do miss the convenience of being able to get anything at all anytime day or night, delivered to your door for almost nothing. I have always sought out the Chinese diaspora wherever I have lived; I still see a friend I made in Uganda. Of course my… Read More »
End of contract treat myself was a short trip to Zanzibar for a bit of R&R. This time I decided to try Nungwi right at the tip of the island. Here you can see the sunset and the sunrise. One of the reasons I wanted to return to the island was to return to Mnemba… Read More »
Sunday and the whole day empty thankfully and Hans decided that he wanted to go to see Tower House. Even though I had to sit in the back and make the dog less nervous, I agreed to accompany him. Getting there is not easy because of the road works around the port. All along the… Read More »
When you live in Europe or other developed region and you hear of droughts, failed crops and dying cattle it’s terribly sad. The rains failing somewhere in Africa is a local and regional calamity. But this misfortune is in places you’ve never been or ever likely to go to. Ethiopia, Somalia, Angola, DRC, Chad, Niger,… Read More »
On the way up to the waterfall we stopped for breath at a lovely garden near a school. There was a dirty white sign which caught my attention and then I could see that the garden was part of Jane Goodall’s Roots and Shoots scheme. I had come across i8t many years ago in the… Read More »
It was a rare weekend stuck in Morogoro and I had trawled the internet to find something interesting to do in the town. Apart from visiting a giant Baobab tree (aren’t they all giant?) the only other thing I found was a walk to Choma Waterfall. I had never been up into the mountains I… Read More »